I think I've mentioned before how fascinated I am by the decisionmaking surrounding censorship. The raws I've found (presumably the TV broadcast) have been more censored than the CR stream, which is unusual. This episode, though, even the CR stream had an interesting moment of censorship (where dining car girl gets her skirt flipped) that wasn't censored in the next episode preview of last week's episode. It seemed downright mild compared to what has been shown before, even within the same episode.

Takamiya really wanted to look at that caboose, if you know what I mean. Well Rail Wars is over, and an alright chill episode.

How should we talk about this series as a whole? I quite like the ED song, did not look it up before but it is apparently done by ZAQ, the band behind a lot of the Chuunibyou songs. Most train stuff went over my head in the series, the harem aspect felt tired, and there were some breaks in logic. But the series did have some interesting parts, some problems were that one girl who would not listen in being part of her character, and I guess I can name some episodes that did rather well. Animation was not the most terrible, and there was some good work with tension.

Not sure how much I will remember this series, probably bring it up to make jokes about trains and think of it as another series that fell into same old harem tropes. I rate the series Decent, sure it was not exactly great, but I did not lose my time watching it, it stopped itself from being terrible.

eh, so long show. I wont be missing you. I'm surprised I made it through

That's a bit harsh. It was actually an A- on the train pr0n, C- on the ecchi, C on the action, and only really an F where they do things like wedge a tripping breaker to the ON position without finding out why it is firing.

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